Image Frontage, Downham Market station
Frontage, Downham Market station
Frontage, Downham Market station Back in 1981 I waxed lyrical in my notebook about Downham Market station building quoting from G. Biddle’s book Victorian Stations. He said of the station ‘who’s plain ogee gables and lozenge-latticed windows betokened a delightfully cosy simplicity entirely fitting in North Norfolk’. Built in 1847 by the Lyn and Ely Railway it is constructed out of carrstone with pale brick dressings but I did note that the replacement white painted corrugated iron roof was not really in keeping! Thankfully, the roof has been returned to its original condition with the stone tiled roof now much more in keeping permitting the station to retain a Grade II listing by English Heritage. I am not sure that the tatty and rust-stained 1964 ‘B’ registered Vauxhall Victor HB parked in front of the station will still be on the road! Keywords: Frontage Downham Market station
Frontage, Downham Market station Back in 1981 I waxed lyrical in my notebook about Downham Market station building quoting from G. Biddle’s book Victorian Stations. He said of the station ‘who’s plain ogee gables and lozenge-latticed windows betokened a delightfully cosy simplicity entirely fitting in North Norfolk’. Built in 1847 by the Lyn and Ely Railway it is constructed out of carrstone with pale brick dressings but I did note that the replacement white painted corrugated iron roof was not really in keeping! Thankfully, the roof has been returned to its original condition with the stone tiled roof now much more in keeping permitting the station to retain a Grade II listing by English Heritage. I am not sure that the tatty and rust-stained 1964 ‘B’ registered Vauxhall Victor HB parked in front of the station will still be on the road! Keywords: Frontage Downham Market station


Back in 1981 I waxed lyrical in my notebook about

Downham Market station building quoting from G. Biddle’s book Victorian Stations. He said of the station ‘who’s plain ogee gables and lozenge-latticed windows betokened a delightfully cosy simplicity entirely fitting in North Norfolk’. Built in 1847 by the Lyn and Ely Railway it is constructed out of carrstone with pale brick dressings but I did note that the replacement white painted corrugated iron roof was not really in keeping! Thankfully, the roof has been returned to its original condition with the stone tiled roof now much more in keeping permitting the station to retain a Grade II listing by English Heritage. I am not sure that the tatty and rust-stained 1964 ‘B’ registered Vauxhall Victor HB parked in front of the station will still be on the road!